SAN DIEGO -- The current Padres emerged unscathed whenbaseball’s Mitchell Report was released Thursday, but severalmembers of the team’s 1998 World Series team were named in thelong-awaited report on steroid use in baseball.

None of the players on the Padres’ current 40-man roster wasamong the 88 current and former major leaguers named in formerSenate Majority Leader George Mitchell’s report, which wascommissioned in March 2006. But current hitting coach Wally Joynerand former ace pitcher Kevin Brown were implicated. Both wereintegral players in the team’s run to the World Series in 1998.

A late 1990s incident involving a Padres’ clubhouse employeethat went unreported was also mentioned in the report.

Padres CEO Sandy Alderson released a statement that didn’taddress either specific players or the steroid issues dealing withthe team. Calls seeking further comment from Alderson were notreturned. General manager Kevin Towers, in an email, declined todiscuss the Mitchell Report other than to say he spent much ofThursday studying it.

“We are pleased that Senator Mitchell’s investigation into theuse of performance-enhancing substances in major league baseball isnow complete and his report has been issued,” Alderson said in astatement. “We appreciate and have always supported the senator’sthorough review of this illegal usage in baseball. We also embracehis recommendations to improve an already strong MLB and playersassociation joint drug prevention and treatment program. Goingforward, we will continue to cooperate with the office of thecommissioner to help ensure against the recurrence of any similarthreat to the integrity of baseball in the future.

“We also hope that Senator Mitchell’s report provides anopportunity for all who love baseball to refocus their attention,with the greatest confidence possible, to the game on thefield.”

According to the report, Joyner and former third baseman KenCaminiti -- who died in 2004, two years after admitting to steroiduse throughout his career -- discussed steroids in 1998 because thefirst baseman needed help repairing his “aging” body. Joyner, whomet with Mitchell, admitted to taking steroids on three occasionsbut said he didn’t like what he was doing, threw away the pills andnever took them again.

Meanwhile, Brown was one of many players tied to former New YorkMets clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski, who pleaded guilty earlierthis year to charges that he dealt steroids to professionalbaseball players for a decade.

Radomski’s cooperation with Mitchell’s investigation helpedidentify many players, including Brown. While with the Dodgers,Brown was referred to Radomski by teammate Paul Lo Duca, the reportsaid. He made at least five purchases of performance enhancingsubstances, the report said.

Radomski was also tied to former Padres players Adam Riggs --who was with the organization in 2001 -- Rondell White (2001), MattHerges (2003) and Ron Villone (1995-96).

Also mentioned in the report was an incident that occurredwithin the Padres clubhouse in either 1998 or 1999 when aunidentified clubhouse employee “saw two players standing huddledover, and looking into, a small box,” the report read. “The Padresemployee overheard one of the players say ‘Winstrol.’ When theplayers noticed him watching, they put the box away and walkedaway. The Padres employee did not report the incident.”

Winstrol is a steroid.

Padres reliever Trevor Hoffman has always professed his supportof steroid testing. But when Mitchell announced in October that hisreport would be released before the end of the year, Hoffman saidhe was unsure where he stood because of the report’s focus on thepast.

“I think with something like that, people are intrigued,"Hoffman said at the time. “But I think you need to look more towardthe future and keep baseball ahead (on future testing). I don’tthink it does anything good to drop names. We should concentrate onwhat we can do to stay ahead of the curve.”

The report also implicated former Padres farmhand Jack Cust.Cust was a minor league teammate of Larry Bigbie, who had ties toRadomski, when the two were in the Baltimore system. Bigbie said inreport that he and Cust discussed steroid use and the fact thatboth had suppliers. Cust, who hit 30 homers for the Padres’Triple-A Portland club in 2006, was traded to Oakland during the2007 season.

Carlsbad High graduate Troy Glaus was also mentioned in thereport, as was former Padres catcher Benito Santiago, who was tiedto the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative in 2003. Former PadresIsmael Valdez, Gary Sheffield and Gary Bennett were alsolisted.